This has no actual real theory behind it, but I was just thinking how cool it'd be if prison abolitionists brought in therapeutic boarding schools into their movement too. I was rather "liberal" most of my adolescence but when I was in one of these fucked up places, I remember thinking "Wow prisons should never have existed" because it felt like that -- a prison. Going back, that's probably one of the few experiences that made me realize how fucked the system is.
Idk I just think it'd be a wonderful collab of two movements and their goals fit so well together.
Also idk where to put this with main is gone so since c/cth is the new main yall can deal with it
Fell down a rabbit hole on the troubled teens industry a while back. It's horrific and in some cases actually worse than prison. You have zero rights in these places and are basically tortured for sometimes years until you can get out.
Oh yeah, pure absolute torture sometimes. I knew someone who had been there since they were 13 and then left at 18, no real world experience at all, having been put in isolation for weeks on-end. Lots of just "sit here and stare at the wall all day to prove you have self-control." It's truly hell. Like it's no SURPRISE such a system exists, but I can't believe it's taken until Paris Hilton spoke out for people to even know these places exist.
I had zero clue these places existed until someone on here posted the Joe versus the Elan School webcomic, which everyone should go read. Like I said, there's prisons out there that a more humane than these "schools".
I went to a place similar. See my comment in this post below. Vile places.
Same. It is really bad.